Full Idea
It is sometimes said that modern physics requires us to espouse an event-ontology, rather than a thing-ontology.
Clarification
An 'onotolgy' specifies what exists
Gist of Idea
Maybe modern physics requires an event-ontology, rather than a thing-ontology
Source
E.J. Lowe (A Survey of Metaphysics [2002], p.233)
Book Reference
Lowe,E.J.: 'A Survey of Metaphysics' [OUP 2002], p.233
A Reaction
It has to be a mistake to build our philosophical ontology on current physics, because even the physicists say they don't understand the latter very well.